Effective strategies help guide your work, and we believe that strategies for social impact must start at the root. Our work must address the root cause of issues of inequality in order to make transformative and sustainable change. Change-makers need to be intentional about making an impact that transforms their community and the world. It’s about how we fail forward, learn and unlearn new ways to build something that has lasting impact. We can help you build a framework and provide you with essential tools for success.

Social Impact Strategies

Branding & Marketing For Social Impact

Impact Management

Business Strategies for Social Impact

Creative Design & Facilitation

Building sustainable change in our communities requires organizing, influence, and understanding the assets within our neighborhoods. We will help you better understand how to uplift marginalized voices and trust the leadership already there to truly serve the community and re-imagine a better way forward where all can thrive and prosper. Our strategy sessions and facilitation help build capacity and tap into the needs and wants of the community that is centered on equity and justice. We know that members within community have the tools to make the change needed, they just need a creative space to pull out their radical imagination for innovation.

Creative Outreach Strategies

Transform Community Through Equity & Justice

Community & Collaboration

Grassroots Organizing

Build Collective Impact & Capacity

Asset Mapping & Capacity Building

We work with thoughtful leaders to cultivate deeper analysis and clarity to shift work cultures that build alignment and develop the abilities of teams to make real and lasting change. Through equity and inclusion we help teams go-inward and create a culture of change to value various identities and perspectives to shift power for greater collective impact and transformation. Through a values-based approach we will help you or your team focus and be a catalyst for creating principled and people-centered change for growth and sustainability.

Organizational Assessment for Equity & Inclusion

Nonprofit Governance

Board & Staff Development

Shifting Work Cultures & Developing Teams

Transformative Leadership

Strategic Planning & Visioning

Whether you are working on an advocacy or political campaign, we can provide direct and strategic support. We work with candidates who are valued, supported and who build-off the assets of the communities they serve. We can help your campaign envision what is possible and how to get there. The change you wish to see manifest should be in direct correlation with the needs, wants and values of the community, and we can help you ask deeper questions that open conversations and reaches deeper answers to shift power, advance action and public will.

Issue & Cause Advocacy

Advocacy Campaign Development

Political Campaign Strategy

Strategic Communication

Community Outreach

We believe in healthy, brave, bold and loving facilitation to learn and grow. Our learning labs are specifically curated to meet the needs of individuals and organizations looking to build their skills set around social justice, social impact, equity and inclusion. We coordinate and execute trainings that are tailored specifically to build capacity and to meet the needs of our clients and communities to make transformative and sustainable change. We believe people-centered strategies and radical imagination open up a portal to the possibilities in creating real and lasting change.

Beyond Diversity

Evolve: Cultivating Change-Makers and Transforming Communities

"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow."

Starting With The End In Mind.

Through a principled framework that is culturally rooted, justice focused and solution oriented, we elevate bold goals and customize thoughtful approaches that start with the end in mind.

TANAY LYNN HARRIS

Founder & Principal

Tenacity Consulting believes in a just world where all thrive and prosper and we help clients implement effective strategies that centers the humanity and dignity of the communities they serve. Tenacity Consulting believes in establishing authentic relationships and collaborations with our clients to achieve greater impact that is transformative and sustainable.

We believe that together, if we are willing to embrace it, we can think more deeply and succinctly about complex and nuanced issues in order to create effective solutions through exploration and radical imagination.

Tenacity Consulting works with partners to design and implement campaigns around issues, advance action and public will, and cultivate strategic alignment. Through a creative design approach, we advise clients in developing strategies that improve lives and shifts power, and advance each client’s agenda and end goal for a better future.

PROJECTS & CLIENTS

TESTIMONIALS

“Tanay is a principled and strategic thinker who always goes above and beyond the task at hand. What Forward Movement Consulting has benefited from is gleaning deeper understanding and a refined approach to the work from Tanay and the projects we’ve partnered with her on. Tanay has taught us that it is not just the what or how but the why that is most important in getting to the core of solutions and ways to move forward.”

“Tanay and her expertise in political campaigning and community organizing could not have come at a more perfect time for our campaign. In a tough open three-way primary race, our team knew we needed to expand our outreach. Tanay’s leadership, adaptability, and project management skills increased our reach in an authentic and accessible way. She came on board and immediately provided value. Tanay has a special talent in understanding and navigating sensitive nuances among various communities and voters that helped us shape our messaging strategy. I cannot wait for the next opportunity to work with Tanay again.”